[wpietri]

I don't think that's true from the perspective of the employer with the stolen money. The employee took the cash. The employer just wants to hit undo on that. They don't see it as a new transaction, but the reversal of the old one.

Of course, this is all a bit arbitrary. So I don't think we'd have much to disagree if cryptocurrency proponents were open about that. But what we get is a lot of them talking about 100% irreversible transactions. That may be true in the technical jargon of a particular system, but is definitely not always true in the broader social context or in casual uses of the term.